Drawn on his own World War II experiences, Slaughterhouse-Five is a commentary on the stupidity of war.

The title, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Kurt Vonnegut, a chronology of the author's life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.